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Irish End BC's Unbeaten Bid;
Rondo Rescues the Wildcats

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Carl Bialik and

Jason Fry The Wall Street Journal Online

Updated Feb. 9, 2005 11:08 a.m. ET

New England, once snickered at for transplanting dour Puritanism into sports, has become an athletic juggernaut of late: The New England Patriots' Super Bowl parade rolled yesterday, hard on the wheels of the Boston Red Sox' World Series fete. And with Boston College starting the college-basketball season 20-0, Bostonians might have been marking another parade on their calendars and thinking, "Ho hum, more duck boats."